Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema – Kamila Andini
Her stories draw from Indonesian art traditions including costume, dance and theatre regularly focussing on women navigating cultural restrictions and expectations. Her films masterfully explore the narrative through nuanced relationships between parents and children, husband and wife, siblings and young love.
Andini has found acclaim at many of the world’s leading international film festivals – including Berlin, Toronto, Tokyo and Busan.
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Cao Fei My City is Yours Exhibition is now open at Art Gallery of New South Wales
Cao was recently voted one of the most influential artists in the world. Born in Guangzhou in 1978 and based in Beijing, she has documented China’s rapid urbanisation and digital revolutions for over two decades. Her acclaimed films, photography and large-scale installations offer thrilling encounters with the disorienting, quick-fire transformations of the new millennium.
My City is Yours 欢迎登陆 is an invitation into a world of neon, street dance and pop music; a city both ...
The Future & Other Fictions Exhibition is coming to ACMI this Summer!
From cyberpunk megacities and first knowledges to rewilded landscapes and sci fi renegades, The Future & Other Fictions showcases the people, artworks and ideas that shape tomorrow.
Through more than 180 works, this immersive exhibition invites you to step into the imaginations of 19 creative visionaries from around the globe. Experience how futures are imagined and made onscreen, with artworks, sets, props, scripts, clips, costumes and original design materials on display.
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The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is coming to GOMA this month!
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries will feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway to the rapidly evolving artistic expression of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Alongside artists and makers whose work has not been previously seen in Australia are a raft of ...
Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema is celebrating Tsai Ming-liang!
A major figure of the second wave of Taiwan New Cinema, Tsai's films transcend formal boundaries, increasingly drawing on his concurrent practice as an acclaimed video artist to devise new ways of conceiving cinema. His films are known for their long takes, meditative pacing and engrossing depictions of lonely figures living on the edges of urban metropolises. Key to his practice is his long-standing partnership with his collaborator and muse Lee Kang-sheng, an enigmatic screen presence who ...
Adolescent Wonderland – Solo Exhibition by Naomi Hobson is coming to JWAC!
Flying Arts Alliance is thrilled to announce Adolescent Wonderland, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Indigenous artist Naomi Hobson, will run 4 - 18 November at Judith Wright Arts Centre. This deeply personal and vibrant exhibition offers a window into Hobson’s unique artistic vision and her connection to community, culture, and country.
Naomi Hobson, a multi-disciplinary artist, engages audiences with her work in painting, photography, and ceramics. A winner of The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape ...
Yvonne Rainer – Everything is a Performance is coming to the Australian Cinémathèque!
This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. They are spirited and vital works, brimming with droll humour and literary sophistication. Screening alongside these films is the impressionistic documentary Rainer Variations 2002, which explores Rainer’s life and work while playfully adopting ...
Colina Wymarra unveils two solo exhibitions this month!
Bloodlines at Judith Wright Art Centre from 6th to 20th September, offers a profound exploration of Wymarra's cultural identity, delving into her rich heritage as both a Gudang/Yadhaykenu Woman from Cape York and a Dauareb/Komet Woman from Mer Island in the Torres Strait, while Seasonal Bloodlines, at The Atrium, University of Queensland, from 9th to 16th September offers a unique perspective through the lens of seasonal changes in her cultural heritage.
Wymarra's work is a powerful ...
The Cracked Actor – Bowie on Screen is now screening at GOMA!
Spanning early on-stage performances to major feature film appearances, this collection of David Bowie’s on-screen roles honours the star’s eclectic career in cinema. The films in the program offer a rare opportunity to see the many facets of Bowie’s on-screen persona, including an enigmatic vampire in Tony Scott’s The Hunger 1983, the mysterious inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige 2006 and the infamous alter-ego that started it all, Ziggy Stardust, explosi...
New Light: Photography Now + Then Exhibition is coming to MoB!
With the power to freeze and preserve time, photography has captured imaginations for centuries. This August, step into New Light: Photography Now + Then, an exhibition where past and present converge in a mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024.
Immerse yourself in the remarkable tale of amateur Brisbane photographer Alfred Henrie Elliott (1870-1954), whose extraordinary images lay dormant for decades until they were discovered in 1983, stored in cedar cigar boxes ...
